How Accents Mark You

While it would be fun to write about the different accents of languages in general, I am going to focus instead on accents among speakers of the English Language, and the assumptions we hold with regard to what constitute as the ‘native’ speech. As someone who was brought up with English as her first language (although she only acquired that language from age 5), I could never own up to English as a native language. A mix of educational background, social-national heritage, and, obviously, the ‘accented’ English I acquired, all contributed to the dilemma. Hence, I became remarkably sensitive to accents, and the comments that others made about not just my accent, but the accents of others. Moreover, as someone who always have difficulties completing forms that insist on my labeling my level of fluency, the one language I always have difficulties labeling is, unsurprisingly, English. <a href="https://medium.com/listening-in-tongues/how-accents-mark-you-fac024053931">Click Here</a>